Integral to the livelihood and well-being of EnlightenNext UK is our trading arm The Window, an events venue service. This business supports EnlightenNext, which is a UK charity and enables us to provide our events at low cost. My partner Kyrsten Perry and her staff run The Window with great professionalism and creative entrepreneurship. As part of her outreach to the Islington community where our Centre is located, Kyrsten has established a relationship with a local college who send their 17-year-olds for work experience to us. The principal of the college wants to help raise the expectations of those kids who often come from difficult backgrounds. He deliberately sends them to our charity because of the values we hold and so that they can experience a workplace environment in which people are actually happy working.
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Andrew Cohen’s latest blog on LOVE is nothing less than mind-blowing and heart-expanding. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in finding out a radically sane view on the most powerful motivation that lies in each and every human being. But how much do we really understand the inner motivations present in our experience of being a human being? After all, doesn’t the capacity for compassion and consciousness seem to be hallmarks of our species? This piece allows one the great privilege to look inward and recognise our deeper self guided by Andrew’s mastery. Enjoy!

http://www.andrewcohen.org/blog/index.php?/blog/post/i-just-called-to-say-i-love-you/

Currently, we’ve got a Living Enlightenment course—a fantastic introduction to the philosophy and practice of Evolutionary Enlightenment—underway at the UK Centre.  It’s being taught by Lovena Vencatakistnen and David Leckenby.  David is keeping a blog about what is transpiring in the class.  It offers insight into what is opening up among everyone in the class, including the instructors.  We include it here for the richness of the inquiry that the evolutionary perspective invariably provides:  http://davidleckenby.wordpress.com/

This week Kyrsten Perry led the weekly Tuesday night session at the EnlightenNext UK Centre. In these sessions, people are introduced to the teachings of evolutionary enlightenment and, through discussing their experience with others, get a sense of what an evolutionary perspective on life means.

I go almost weekly and the format isn’t always the same.  This week we began with an audio clip from the source and inspiration of Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, who was giving a short talk on evolution as part of an online course entitled The evolutionaries guide to changing the world.
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EnlightenNext and its business arm, The Window Venue Hire, have proudly won two awards from Ecovate, sponsors of the Green Business Innovators 2010 awards programme. Wanting to align our actions with our values, we’ve been implementing a number of sustainable environmental practices over the last few years and now we’re getting recognized for our efforts. [Read more →]

At the EnlightenNext UK Centre in London, Chris Parish gave a rousing follow-up recently to his popular talk which took place last autumn on the British penchant for cynicism.  In this, his more recent foray into British ways entitled Our Potential Beyond British Cynicism, Chris’s take on the British propensity for the cynical view and barbed retort was every bit as lively, humorous and on-the-mark as was last autumn’s original inquiry into the topic.  Only this time, Parish focused more on how to get his compatriots out of the quagmire they’re in rather than helping them see their predicament in the first place.

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In honour of National Vegetarian Week, which took place 24 – 30 May in the UK, EnlightenNext’s business arm, The Window Venue Hire, hosted a vegetarian food fair to celebrate the delights of vegetarianism on 27 May.  Joined by London’s foremost purveyor of organic foods, Planet Organic, and by Europe’s first organic and vegan Japanese restaurant, Itadaki-Zen, EnlightenNext’s chef, Annie Brown, organized a beautiful evening of tasting, education, and conviviality at the EnlightenNext UK Centre in the heart of Islington, London. [Read more →]

On 24 April 2010 the fourth Truth Heals conference was held in Berlin, Germany. This moving video by Renata Keller captures the events of the day, from organizer and inspiration behind the conference Thomas Huebl’s motivations for gathering people together to address this difficult chapter in German and world history to Andrew Cohen’s stirring call to action to the many genuine expressions by participants of a willingness to confront the past and move forward in a new way. To read my blog post about the conference, go here.

Truth Heals – 65 years after the Second World War – from the trauma to a new strength of responsibility from Renata Keller on Vimeo.